Time to Love tagged with 'valentines day quotes'

It's Valentine Competition Time!

27 Jan, 2016

Back in December I was invited by the All in One Company to design onesies for all the family. I can now confirm that I have spent most/all of January, hiding away from the cold and the rain in my onesie.

My Onesie Design

Competition Time

Because I think everyone should have a onesie, I’m happy to say that I have a Valentines Competition to win £100 to spend at the All-in-One company!

You can either give the gift of comfort to your loved one and design them a special valentines present… or keep all the pleasures for yourself (I would not blame you!). Scroll to the bottom for more info on the competition! (more…)

Love is …Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you are getting spoilt (either by your partner or yourself!) and you’re feeling the love.

I was woken up this morning by Mike sleepily saying, “You are beautiful and sexy. And clever. Definitely clever.” Whatever. Where’s my present?!

We are on route, minus the children, to London for a night out with my best friend and her partner. It’s going to be BRILLIANT. But in the pit of my stomach I have an ache having left Reuben, happy as anything with Grandad and almost too busy to say goodbye. He’s my little dude and while I’m sooooo excited for tonight, I can’t wait to see him again. Which is why this tagged blog from Beth is so fitting.

Beth from Betty and the Bumps has basically chain lettered me. She’s asked me to think about Love now that I’m a parent and if it’s changed. I’m paraphrasing as the original message from My Petit Canard was much more thoughtful! I loved what Beth wrote about this…it was so true! From not doing your hair to going out makeup less for months, these are the things we do because we love our little ones. And, here are my loves.

Love is

Love is…spending hours reading about weaning, making beautiful, organic, homemade food only to have it throw across the room x 1000.

Love is…getting a kiss on the lips. An actual kiss, with puckered lips *heart melts*

Love is…hearing the word “mum” from your little one.

Love is…not being able to watch or listen to The News because the world is too cruel to bare now.

Love is…reading the world’s most boring book over and over. Ditto singing the same song.

Love is…Eskimo kisses followed by little fingers pointing out the features of my face; our bedtime ritual.

These aren’t the BEST Valentine’s Day Poems but they are a few that I like and have made me laugh (particularly Soth and Chunk), so even if you aren’t in a relationship you should be able to enjoy these without barfing!

Mike and I aren’t big on Valentine’s Day Poems or cards (although we seem to be better than on our actual anniversary!). As a romantic gesture this year I organised (with a lot of help from my best mate) for us to go away for a surprise. I was doing really well with the surprise until Mike noticed that a shed load of money had been paid to East Coast Rail for our train tickets and little by little he’s ended up finding out exactly what we’re doing. Asking him if his suit needed a dry clean was the final straw. Anyway, we’re going to something super cool in London… a Future Cinema ‘immersive experience’ of Who Framed Roger Rabbit!!! I know!

So while I’ve spent a small fortune on a single night out in London, I think the act of present giving is not going to happen but I do enjoy some funny Valentines Day poems! And I can imagine something like this will be scribbled on a hand made card to make the occasion!

What Valentines Day Poem will you be writing in your card?! Comment below and the best will win a gold star!

I’m a sucker for quotes. My ‘Time for Mum’ Pinterest Board is full of inspirational messages that I can look at when I’m feeling, well, less inspired. And I’ve also recently realised I’m a bit of a sucker for Valentines…I’ve got crafts organised for Gabriella and her cousins this weekend, I’ve got a secret trip planned for Mike and I on Valentine’s Day, and I’ve found myself recently searching for this term on pinterest…Valentines Day Quotes. I kid you not.

I may as well own it. I love the power of a good quote and often (very often) the words of others can really sum up how I feel. I wish I could be more succinct!

The other thing I have been doing today is learning more about Pinterest. I’ve discovered that quite a bit of my traffic comes from Pinterest even though I don’t use it much! So I’ve been investigating how I can improve Mums’ Days Pinterest presence on there.

One piece of advice was to create your own pin able images, so I’ve been playing with some of the valentines day quotes that I’ve found and made them into images (using the fantastic and free resource called PicMonkey).

Here it is, a list of my favourite quotes and messages, that might help you on the 13th February when you’re not sure what what you want to write in your card to your beloved! If you like the images I have created please do pin them for me!! xx

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